Re: [PATCH 00/25] Change time_t and clock_t to 64 bit

Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-13T20:35:15Z

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> I think we have three categories:

Thanks for the list!

> a) interfaces that uses relative time_t/timespec/timeval:
> b) interfaces that don't make sense for times in the past:

> c) interfaces that require absolute times:
> - stat/lstat/fstatat/
> - utime/utimes/futimesat
>
> These absolutely have to use something better than time_t
> both in user space and in the kernel so we can deal with
> old files. A lot of file systems need to be fixed as well so
> we can actually store the times, regardless of whether we
> are running a 32 or 64 bit kernel.

So these are the ones we have to worry about.
It looks like they all involve I/O? Apart from the case of using block data
from the buffer cache, the 64-bit operations should disappear in the
actual I/O noise, right?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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